It shall be this one's duty to offer recipes and menus. These will be easy to follow, and tested to be good enough that a slave would allow his Master to serve it to Master's Guests and reflect only the best of his Master.
For far worse than Master's anger is Master's disappointment.

Monday, February 16, 2015

Boston Marriage Soup

Important Update and revision follows!Almost
any cooking site will offer a version of “Italian Wedding Soup.”
With the rapidly advancing Marriage Equality decisions, slave thought
why not dedicate a soup to an early forerunner. Well at least for
women, not for men. Remember even Queen Victoria changed their new
sexual perversion laws, removing any mention of women. The Queen
declared that no women had such urges.

The
term "Boston marriage" became associated with Henry James's
The Bostonians (1886), a novel involving a long-term co-habiting
relationship between two unmarried women. Although he never used the
term, James' sister Alice, lived such a loving relationship with
another woman.

There
were many examples of women in "Boston Marriage"
relationships from the late 1700s to the early part of the 20th
century.

Of
necessity, such women had to be financially independent due either to
family inheritance or career earnings. Women who were able to have a
career (doctor, scientist, professor) created a new class who were
not dependent on men. These women were allowed a measure of social
acceptance and left alone to arrange their own lives together.

So
let us dedicate this great healthy-hardy soup to these fearless
social pioneers. Only this time, lets include the men too. After all
Massachusetts was the first state to recognize marriage equality.

Ingredients:

1
½ pound turkey breast fillets, cut into 1/2-inch pieces

8
ounces smoked turkey sausage, cut into 1/2-inch slices

1
28 oz can diced tomatoes (un-drained)

1
15 oz. can navy (cannellini) beans, rinsed and drained

1
1/3 cups water

1
tbsHerbes
de Provence, crushed
in your hand

Directions

Rinse
& drain the navy beans. If you are using the dried navy beans:
soak them in water with a tbs of baking soda in it overnight. That
will keep them from creating gas in your lower digestive tract!

Wipe
out the slow cooker, cover and set on low.

Cut
the sausages into 1 inch pieces. Cutting them on an angle releases
more flavor when you cook.

Next
cut the turkey fillets into 1 inch strips.

Heat
a skillet with 2 tbs olive oil on medium heat. Stir in the cut
pieces of turkey.

Cook,
stirring occasionally for about 8 minutes. At this point the turkey
will be an un-appitizing shade of gray and the skillet will be filled
with liquid. Remove the meat with a slotted spoon and put on a paper
towel lined plate to drain. Wipe out the pan, add another tbs of oil
and let return to heat.

Add
turkey sausage. Stir occasionally for about 7 minutes until edges
start to brown and the sausages have swollen. Remove to a paper towel
lined plate.

Return
the turkey to the skillet for an additional 7 minutes.

Cook,
stirring occasionally until the turkey is also
starting to brown.

Add
meats to the pot.

Add
the diced tomatoes with their juice. Stir in the drained navy beans.

Put
the tbs of Herbes de Provence into your palm and crush it with your
thumb as you sprinkle in over the mix in the pot. This will help
release the flavors.

This
can become a tradition with you and your friends if you like. We
make our own traditions every day. Life is for us!

Important
revision and update!

Warming
the left over Boston Marriage soup and decided to improve it with
spinach. Wow what a great difference!

All
it takes is about 8 oz. of cleaned, cut up, baby spinach.

If
the soup is still in the crock pot, add the greens with about 1 hour
to go on the cooking. They will wilt down to almost nothing. Stir and
let the flavors blend.

If
you are reheating, like slave is doing here, you might add about 1
cup more of the chicken broth, and bring to a boil.

Add
the spinach in handfuls stirring each in. Then lower the heat to a
simmer and let cook for about 30 minutes.

The
addition of spinach not only enriches but also tempers the acidity of
the tomatoes in the soup. This changes the whole dynamic. Slave was
fretting over this for days. Something was needed and this, fills the
bill!

Please
try it this way

I
sit enjoying the warm soup contemplating the snow and ice outside.
Master informs me that the Danes have an old saying: